News from the Pews - 16 January 2025

Dear Friends

Hello!

I forgot an important notice last Sunday, which is that this year's Week of Prayer for Christian Unity begins on Saturday. To mark it, this coming Sunday 19th will involve an exchange of preachers between us and Soham Methodist Chapel. John Cole will preach and lead at Berrycroft, and Teresa Ely, who is a Methodist Local Preacher will join us to deacon and preach at 10am. Please keep all our local churches and Christian fellowships, as well as the wider Church Universal in your prayers in these days especially.

Next: advance notice that the next Tea Time Church will be at 3.30pm on Sunday 26 Jan., and the next Jam Sandwich Club will be on Wed. 19th Feb (NOT Wed. 26th as advertised in Jigsaw). 

Looking ahead to Candlemas, everyone is welcome to a Deanery Service marking the creation of the Isle of Ely Villages Benefice to bring to God our thanks, concerns and hopes for the future. 4pm on Sunday 2 February at Witchford Parish Church, followed by tea and cake. (The Isle of Ely Villages Benefice comprises the parishes of Little Downham; Little Thetford; Stretham; Haddenham; Coveney; Sutton; Wilburton; Witcham with Mepal; and Witchford with Wentworth. Some of those parishes have been without a vicar for years, and the benefice has no team clergy in charge of it now. It would be a great encouragement to them if a good crowd turned up on 2nd Feb.)

With very best wishes all round, and perhaps see you Sunday

Eleanor